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Sergio Busquets would not be drawn into using the spat between Lionel Messi and Barcelona sporting director Eric Abidal as an excuse for the club's Copa del Rey exit on Thursday.
Barca were stunned by Athletic Bilbao in the quarter-finals when the hosts won 1-0 at the San Mames Stadium thanks to a stoppage-time own goal.
Unfortunately for Busquets, he was the man to turn into his own net under pressure from Inaki Williams.
It compounded Barca's misery in a week when Messi responded publicly and angrily to some ill-advised Abidal comments about the circumstances of Ernesto Valverde's January exit from the Camp Nou:
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